The fifth prizes were those in charge of inaugurate and animate this year the Extraordinary Christmas Lottery Draw. And they did not wait. When the rite of the children of San Ildefonso were catching air and the euros were distributed in ‘pinches’, the surprise jumped and the rain of millions began.
The 86986 was in charge of remove tranquility that was breathed in an empty Royal Theater. It was less than fifteen minutes since the start of the draw and the first wires of the first board were filling up when the movement began. The first of the fifth prizes was widely distributed and went, among other places, to the administrations of Novelda, Orihuela, Elda (Alicante) and Alicante capital, Almansa (Albacete), Valencia, Algeciras (Cádiz), Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Albacete , Zaragoza, Madrid (‘Doña Manolita’), Coruña, Girona, Roquetas del Mar, Puente del Río and Almería, and Ceuta. José Luis, head of the administration ‘El Sembrador’ in Albacete, was full “it has been a very distributed number at the window.” Although he recognized that it was going to be a different draw due to the logical safety distances.
That inaugural prize of the draw has not just been celebrated when a few minutes later the 37023, also singing for the girls Noura Akrouh and Elisabeth Obarisiagbon. This time the euros they were going to be almost equally distributed than in the previous number between administrations of Madrid (‘Doña Manolita’), Jaca (Huesca), Gijón, Zaragoza, Madrid, Vinaroz (Castellón), Ponferrada (León), Viella (Lérida), La Llagostera (Barcelona), Barakaldo ( Vizcaya), Oleiro (A Coruña), Irún (Guipúzcoa), El Berron (Asturias), Almuñecar (Granada), Totana (Murcia), Pamplona, O Porriño (Pontevedra), Santa Marta de Torres (Salamanca) or Santiago de Compostela, among other. And one of them was the La Chasnera gas station in Granadilla de Abona, at kilometer 54 of the Tenerife-Tenerife South highway, an emblematic point in the distribution of fortune, since it usually distributes prizes from this extraordinary draw among the thousands of customers who stop there.
In the administration of Aliaga street in Madrid, the lottery explained that he sold 137 tickets of the 37023. “It has been widely distributed, because it was also distributed from a neighborhood bar”, very close to the Metropolitan Stadium. “We have many subscribers to the same number for all the draws for the rest of the year. It has even touched me a little ”, celebrated the person in charge of the lottery office.
The tedium of a slow draw and without awards it broke again shortly before 11:00 hours when the brothers Samuel and Alonso Dávalos Durán sang the 19371. Another widely distributed number that went to Don Benito (Badajoz), Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real), Lorenzá (Lugo), Zaragoza, Madrid and Alcorcón (Madrid). And in the lottery administration of the Torrejón de Ardoz Corridor Park (Madrid), Julio sold 60,000 euros per window. “It is widely distributed and has come to cheer up the festivities in Torrejón, one of the towns where the pandemic hit the hardest at the beginning,” said the lottery.
Two minutes later, the Dávalos Durán brothers sang the 49760. The fourth fifth prize that took luck to Alcañiz (Teruel), where it was distributed exclusively. The number was sold by the Bosque administration. His 172 series left 10,320,000 euros in this population of Teruel. The former socialist deputy and current mayor of Alcañiz, Ignacio Urquizu, expressed his joy at the award for a “very disciplined” town during the pandemic and that due to the limitations imposed, its neighbors and small businesses “are having a hard time.”
The draw was advancing without prizes when at 11:20 hours, the girls Nerea Pareja and Judith García sang the 55483, the fifth of the fifths. They broke like this again the boredom and despair of a morning in which a stone of prizes was suspected at the end of the draw. This number distributed luck in Berriz (Vizcaya), Bilbao, Arroyo de la Encomienda (Valladolid), Madrid (Puerta del Sol and Doña Manolita), Jumilla (Murcia) and Torrejón de Ardoz.
Luis, from the administration located in the Río Shopping Mall in Arroyo de la Encomienda, could not contain his joy when explaining how he sold this award. And it is that he distributed this fifth and part of the third prize. “Of the 55483 we have sold ten tenths, all by the window, which represents 60,000 euros in total,” he said.
With the permission of the third party that went through, the draw continued to give fifth prizes without stopping. Unai Barón and Alexander René sang at 11:50 on 28674 what left another ‘sprinkle’ of money by half Spain. And it is that this number, which appeared in the sixth table, was sold in the Barcelona neighborhood of Sants, Leioa (Vizcaya), Gijón, Alfaro (La Rioja), Mijas and Coín (Málaga), Molina de Segura (Murcia), Valladolid , Venta de Baños (Palencia), Guijuelo (Salamanca), Zaragoza, Palma de Mallorca, Torrelavega (Cantabria), Getafe and Madrid. The number was also distributed from another classic office in this extraordinary draw, the Bruixa d’Or, in Sort (Lleida). There, 30 series of this sixth fifth prize were sold.
All the jackpots had been sung and only two-fifths remained. At 1:15 p.m. Roberto Constantinescu and Aya Ben Hamdouch -the same who gave the second prize, sang the 43831. Maybe is the most distributed prize of the entire draw. It went to 40 lottery administrations from north to south the peninsula and both archipelagos.
The extraordinary Christmas draw was practically closed in the ninth table at 1:25 p.m. when Yanisse Alexandra Soto and Arsalán Arrafi sang the 31617. The eighth of the fifth prizes and the last of this year. There are only prizes of less than 1,000 euros left to complete the aforementioned ninth and tenth tables. The 31617 left its rain of euros in Madrid, Dos Hermanas (Seville) and Valls (Tarragona).